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Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Sketches of Castleford

Castleford Forum Museum will be
housed on the third floor of the redeveloped library building in Castleford.

There will also be a shared
display space in the local studies area of the library on the second
floor. This will be developed to tell the story of Henry Moore’s early
life.

Featuring in the display will be
the Castleford Notebook by Albert Wainwright. Henry met and befriended
Albert at Castleford Secondary School. They remained firm friends until
Albert’s untimely death in 1943.

The notebook illustrates a colourful mixture of street
scenes, factories and industry, plus drawings of classrooms at Castleford
Grammar School, many places that Moore would have been familiar with when he
was growing up in the town in the 1920s: